New York USA-1958: A Vintage Film Displaying An Empty Screened Porch Along With

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationNew York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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A Vintage Film Displaying An Empty Screened Porch Along With — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a quiet suburban house with a screened porch supported by concrete stilts. The footage shows the exterior of the home, including large windows and a ladder visible through the screen. The image has a soft, faded color palette typical of mid-century film, with noticeable grain and slight blurriness. The camera pans slowly, offering different angles of the porch and surrounding yard, evoking a sense of calm, everyday life from the late 1950s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123041787

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Commercial Direct license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

Flags come from automated catalog metadata, not a legal opinion. The source is an original 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie reel. For high-stakes commercial use, request a full rights review.

Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel 1256 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: #8
Reel-level year note: 1957-1958
Reel-level location note: new york
Date: 1958 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: New York, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s New York home-movie requests needing a quiet residential exterior, porch detail, or suburban house cutaway.
Period detail: The screened porch, elevated concrete supports, simple siding, and faded 8mm color may show mid-century residential design details.
Home-movie behavior: The slow, observational camera movement gives an unstaged household view of a porch and yard with no people present.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include screened porch panels, house siding, windows, concrete supports, a yard, flowers, a ladder, and a roof edge.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm color, visible grain, mild blur, slight exposure variation, and a handheld home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a residential establishing insert, quiet transition, memory beat, or exterior cutaway.
Historical context: The footage offers everyday visual context for a mid-century house exterior without showing people, traffic, or public activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright and any property-related permissions should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Searches for 1958 8mm New York home movie, screened porch exterior, suburban house on stilts, or vintage residential cutaway may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other New York 1958 home exteriors, then broader screened porch or suburban house footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 New York 8mm frame showing a quiet house exterior with grass, flowers, windows, and part of a screened porch. — A residential exterior with lawn, flowers, and porch windows in soft 8mm color.

1958 New York 8mm frame showing a screened porch with tall panels, house siding, and a ladder visible through the screen. — The screened porch fills the frame, with a ladder faintly visible behind the panels.

1958 New York 8mm frame showing a closer view of porch screening, siding, and an interior ladder behind the panels. — A closer angle emphasizes the porch grid, siding, and ladder inside the screened area.

1958 New York 8mm frame showing the side of a house with porch supports, roofline, gutter, and adjacent windows. — The camera angle shifts to the side wall, roof edge, supports, and nearby windows.

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